“How do the magnetic filaments accelerate cosmic ray electrons to close the speed of light?”
— Farhad Zadeh, Ph.D., Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Northwestern UniversityClick for report.
“Why L2? If you try to stay closer, you’ve got to expend fuel to stay there. But at L2, in a halo orbit, the mission life for this vehicle will be the longest (perhaps 20 years).”
— Scott Willoughby, Webb Program Manager, Northrop Grumman
“Can literally hear the volcano eruption, sounds pretty violent. Raining ash and tiny pebbles, darkness blanketing the sky.”
— Dr. Faka’iloatonga Taumoefolau posted on TwitterClick for report.
“Our goal is to explore and gather as much scientific data as possible.”
— Zhang Rongqiao, China’s Chief Tianwen-1 Manager, CNASClick for report.
“After 14 years, the James Webb Telescope will be lifting off from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana on an Arianespace Ariane 5 rocket with the new target date of December 25, 2021, and a launch window of between 7:20 AM and 7:52 AM Eastern time.” Launch was a success!
— NASA press release, December 21, 2021
“We found a central part of Valles Marineris to be packed full of water — far more water than we expected.”
— Alexey Malakhov, Space Research Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, RussiaClick for report.
“So yeah, it’s not an obelisk or aliens, but certainly something to check out, and hard to discern much from the image.”
— Andrew Jones @AJ_Fl at 1:03 AM, December 3, 2021, Twitter web app.
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